Happy World Book Day! -Missale Nidrosiense from 1519

For World Book Day, The Gunnerus Library of NTNU (Norwegian University of Technology and Science) in Trondheim, Norway presented the first book ordered printed in Norway: Missale Nidrosiense from 1519.  This book presented the new liturgy to be used in the whole of the Archbishopric of Nidaros- which encompassed the Norwegian lands from Trøndelag and to the north.  The book was printed on the orders of Archbishop of Nidaros Erik Valkendorf and was produced in Copenhagen by Master Printer Paul Reff.

(information from library website: http://www.ntnu.no/ub/missale-nidrosiense)